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Understanding light reflection: Build your own periscope
Mirrors change the direction of light and reflect it. We can demonstrate this practically by making a periscope. Light is reflected from one object into a mirror and then onto the other mirror before reaching your eyes. Collect your materials and find out for yourself!
What is evaporation?
In this investigation you are going to see if water can move – or does it just change?
Food webs
When we look at habitats we often look at food chains to see the feeding relationships within them. Sometimes, though, more than one animal feeds off others. This is when we make food webs. Look at these cards. Can you cut them out and arrange them on the table with the arrows to show which animals feed off each other?
I hear with my little ear
Sit in a quiet place and close your eyes and listen really carefully. What can you hear inside the room? What can you hear inside yourself? Record the sounds you hear.
Refuting a hypothesis
This worksheet requires children to give ways of proving that sound can travel through solids and then try out their ideas.
Column addition working out
A worksheet designed to prompt children to work out addition of three-digit numbers using the column method.
Writing a riddle
A worksheet prompting your child to use descriptive phrases and rhyming words to write a riddle about an everyday object.
Finding habitats
An activity to encourage your child to go outside and look for habitats, then record the features they find.
The water cycle
A cutting and sticking activity to help reinforce children's knowledge of the water cycle.
Division and chunking
An activity involving cutting out cards and matching a division problem to the correct working out.
Writing a poem based on common sayings
A worksheet prompting your child to write a poem based on common sayings that they hear every day.
Keeping warm investigation
This worksheet prompts your child to think about how they would plan an investigation into keeping warm.
Useful gases around us
A worksheet encouraging your child to research into how different gases are used to help us in everyday life.
Division story problems
Real-life word problems to help your child practise using written methods for division.
Write your own similes
A worksheet demonstrating to children what a simile is and then giving them prompts to write their own.
Solids and liquids quiz
A quiz involving questions about solids and liquids for children to test their knowledge with.
Conductors and insulators
Use this worksheet to discuss conductors and insulators with your child. See if they can work out which materials will make the bulb light up and why.
Equivalent fractions practice
A matching activity for children to practice applying their knowledge of equivalent fractions.
Marking punctuation
A worksheet with a passage of writing that your child needs to read over and mark, inserting the correct punctuation.
Solids, liquids and gases
This worksheet involves cutting out scientific vocabulary regarding solids, liquids and gases and matching it to its definition.
Food chains and interdependence
A cut out and stick activity that encourages children to think about which animals eat which plants and animals. They need to arrange these into food chains with arrows pointing the correct way.
Division: splitting numbers
Splitting big numbers can help your child learn to divide them correctly. Remind them to watch out for remainders!
Division revision and practice
Help your child tackle simple division problems, practising how to translate a story problem into a number sentence.
Column addition with three- and four-digit numbers
Column addition practice is much easier if your child is using a grid to help them keep the units, tens, hundreds and thousands in the right place value columns! Working through this worksheet will help them test the technique.